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Originally Posted by Steve Pavlina's Blog Dry Hands. . . I don’t think this dryness is related to what I’m eating but rather due to handling and preparing so many fruits and veggies. |
You might be right if the dry skin on your hands was in isolation, but it's not.
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Itchiness . . . Several times today I felt itchy all over my body.
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This is almost certainly due to the extreme low fat nature of your diet. On the other hand, some uncooked foods are mildly toxic. They are fine eaten sprinkled in a salad now and then but in large quantities they must be cooked to be safely eaten. Mushrooms fall into this category.
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Freezing fruit does cause some reduction in the nutritional value, but it’s far less damaging than cooking and doesn’t introduce any new toxins.
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cooking doesn't introduce toxins. It destroys them, in addition to killing pathogens and making the food more digestible. For example of the latter, it's difficult for the human body to extract lycopene from vegetables unless they are cooked.
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I had some minor cravings for cooked food today, but they passed once I ate more raw food.
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of course you are "craving" cooked food. Your body is starving and its pleas are falling on deaf ears. The diet you have shown us is extremely poor. It's lacking in essential nutrients, has too little fat and the little protein you get is extremely low quality. Fortunately you are young and healthy and the body has a lot of built in resiliency. You will survive 30 days of this.
The fact that you are making this insane and pointless exercise look attractive to thousands of people is extremely disturbing to me. It's irresponsible. You are endangering your health and the health of hundreds of people for the sake of feeling superior and virtuous--in other words for the sake of sheer vanity. If you can't read nutritional information based on science and evaluate it rationally it calls everything else you write into question.
This is not intended to be merely a flame. I like most of your ideas but this is nuts. I don't want to read the "character" section of the forum for fear I won't be able to stand the irony.